5 U.S. Code § 8702 - Automatic coverage

(a)An employee is automatically insured on the date he becomes eligible for insurance and each policy of insurance purchased by the Office of Personnel Management under this chapter shall provide for that automatic coverage.

(b)An employee desiring not to be insured shall give written notice to his employing office on a form prescribed by the Office. If the notice is received before he has become insured, he shall not be insured. If the notice is received after he has become insured, his insurance stops at the end of the pay period in which the notice is received.

(c)Notwithstanding a notice previously given under subsection (b), an employee who is deployed in support of a contingency operation (as that term is defined in section
101(a)(13) of title
10) or an employee of the Department of Defense who is designated as an emergency essential employee under section
1580 of title
10 shall be insured if the employee, within 60 days after the date of notification of deployment or designation, elects to be insured under a policy of insurance under this chapter. An election under the preceding sentence shall be effective when provided to the Office in writing, in the form prescribed by the Office, within such 60-day period.

In subsection (a), the words “eligible for insurance” are coextensive with and substituted for “eligible under the terms of this chapter”.

Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

Amendments

2008—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 110–417inserted “an employee who is deployed in support of a contingency operation (as that term is defined in section
101(a)(13) of title
10) or” after “subsection (b),” and substituted “the date of notification of deployment or” for “the date of the”.

Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title XI, § 1134(b)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–318, provided that: “For purposes of section
8702(c) of title
5, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)), an employee of the Department of Defense who is designated as an emergency essential employee under section
1580 of title
10, United States Code, before the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 2000] shall be deemed to be so designated on the date of the enactment of this Act.”